SKUNK CABBAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skunk cabbage mean? 

• SKUNK CABBAGE (noun)
  The noun SKUNK CABBAGE has 2 senses:

1. deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe

2. clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe

  Familiarity information: SKUNK CABBAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKUNK CABBAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

foetid pothos; polecat weed; skunk cabbage; Symplocarpus foetidus

Hypernyms ("skunk cabbage" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Holonyms ("skunk cabbage" is a member of...):

genus Symplocarpus; Symplocarpus (one species: skunk cabbage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lysichiton americanum; skunk cabbage

Hypernyms ("skunk cabbage" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)